Category: Student of Life

Strange Limbo

I am at the point in my planned relocation to North Carolina where I’m marking my remaining time in the San Francisco Bay Area in weeks, even days. Today I sent my property manager notification of my intended departure date (we had talked previously about my plan to move, so it will not be a surprise). As I had given...

Take A Deep Breath And…

Even though I know it’s not safe for me, I would cling to the known, falsely believing it is safer than unknown. Until that day comes, when leaping is the safest thing I can do. ????????????

New Moon Mantra

Breathing in, I accept the events of my life. Breathing out, I let go of regret. Breathing in, I accept the choices I have made. Breathing out, I let go of my need to judge. Breathing in, I accept my life as it unfolds before me. Breathing out, I let go of my need for absolute control. ????????????

Half A Life

My temperament has been a little on the fragile side the last couple of weeks. And yesterday, as I looked at a calendar, I realized why. I have officially lived half of my life without my mother. From this day forward, I will have lived more of my life without my mom than with her. That sentence feels pretty weird....

New Year’s Day

And so I begin another trip around the sun. I’m a different Me this year. Or, rather, I’m more ME now than I have been in a very long time. Over the past year I’ve made an assessment of my life and have been sorting what I’m bringing with me—and what I’m leaving behind—in the year ahead. I’ve done some...

On Re-Thinking

I’ve been working on a writing assignment that, on the surface, sounded fairly straight-forward. But by the time my terrified perfectionist and inner critic got done tag-teaming me, I started re-thinking this whole Writing As A Thing That I Do business. All the while, in a very significant part of my life right now I’m feeling like I’m being pushed...